samedi 30 mai 2015

Some weekend inspiration for you with this perfectly organised studio flat for sale on Stadshem. Despite its small surface (only 25 sqm), the space feels both airy and inviting thanks to a monochrome palette warmed up by light grey walls and different types of wood.

jeudi 28 mai 2015

During our stay in this great Notting Hill loft apartment in London, Danish brand Bang & Olufsen lent us some audio products from their new BEO Play collection. We're all music lovers, so we were thrilled to try out the new H2 headphones, but also to be able to enjoy music all together while hanging out in "our" apartment at night. And obviously we took some photos...

lundi 25 mai 2015

I've told you about at{mine}before, the online community for design lovers... The good news is that they just launched their brand new website with lots of new features! The site also has a new look & feel and is now available for both desktop and mobile.

Not yet familiar with at{mine}? It's a place for members to post snapshots of their own homes, tag the sources of their style and be inspired by the stories, people and brands behind beautiful real interiors.

The new features make it quite easy to search for users, categories or specific items, including the possibility to add items to a wishlist. As a beta member I have uploaded a few photos from my own home there, but the site is full of inspiring pictures posted by all the members.

lundi 18 mai 2015

I thought I'd start the week with some very flowery pictures from the London bloggers tour. Thanks to the atmine* team, we had the pleasure of spending an afternoon at the iconic Liberty department store on Regent Street, where we were welcomed by Emma Mawston, Head of Design, and her team. Btw, this London landmark is celebrating 140 years of existence in 2015, quite impressive!

We got a unique presentation of the new Secret Garden collection, inspired by the book with the same name by Francis Hodgson Burnett. The collection is entirely hand-drawn and Emma gave us an insight to the creative process, the inspiration behind it and we also got to admire the original drawings - amazing!

vendredi 15 mai 2015

I still have a few things to show you from our latest bloggers tour to London, like our visit to Tiipoi for example. Tiipoi is a London based lifestyle brand founded in 2013 by Spandan Gopal. Its name comes from the word TIINPAI - a three legged stool that British India interpreted to being a table on which tea is served ("Teapoy"). The brand believes in a common sense attitude to consumption, where nothing is wasted and where innovation and improvisation come from the lack of something rather than an excess of it. Inspired by Indian everyday objects, every Tiipoi product is made with the idea of an evolving lifespan and with an intent that they will one day be passed on.

With the same approach, we had a discussion together around Super Normal objects, ie objects possessing intuitive design qualities, objects that have become somewhat invisible but have unconsciously evolved to be at the centre of our daily lives. (Click here to read more about Jasper Morrison's ideas behind Super Normal, and here to read about the 2006 Tokyo exhibition of Super Normal objects, curated by Jasper Morrison and Naoto Fukasawa).

We were also invited to suggest our own Super Normal objects. My contribution was a mug (in the middle of the photo above) in which I drink my morning coffee every day. Made by Gustavsberg, these mugs were produced for the Swedish army in the 40's-50's and have that basic function and timeless design that you never grow tired of.